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It’s the first time I take some time to talk about this product but I’ve had access to it since last summer. I got the beta of Microsoft Office 2007 around the same time I got my Vista Beta 2. I had installed in on that system but wasn’t using it as a mainstream application. When I got an email from Microsoft saying that my beta key would expire at the end of March I said to myself I had to give it more credit and put OpenOffice aside for a few weeks. So I did it, I’ve been using Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 for a few weeks and found it quite pleasent. People feared the new Ribbon interface was going away from the classic toolbar view. At first, it was very confusing but I quickly learned to appreciate the new ease of use it provided me. I’m running the Beta 2 Technical Refresh and it’s actually 95% functional, the only problem I’m still running into is that I can’t correct the misspelled instances, it does point them out with red or green underlining but when I select the correction from the contextual menu it does not change it to my selection. So for now I have to manually correct my mistakes. This has clearly been fixed in the final version.

Microsoft is setting the score straight just like it’s doing with Vista by bringing us new features and look by keeping what made their products work in the first place. You get a good balance between the ease of use and the in-depth options you can access with their applications. I’m a student, a free version is always welcome and they provide a lower cost edition for these type of situations.

Every semester I reach the point where I know I’ve been slacking and I got a pile of work. I usually realize it during the last weeks of school and have to rush for my papers and tests. This year I realized it only two weeks after starting school! Is it good, is it bad; not sure because this means I’m already late in my work. On the other hand now that I know it so early in the semester I can speed up and focus on my homework. Now there is my blog taking about 10 minutes of my life per day (lets say one hour per week). Then there is school with 12 hours of classes (you need to add 2 study hours for every in-class time) and on top of that I have to work 20 hours a week.

As much as I feel competent to do all this, succeed every where and still find time to have fun my obligations are not easy on me. I have to start thinking about working out, since my teenage hood seems over I must compensate. So yes I’m overloading this weekend but after a good night sleep I believe I can plan my week and catch up. Hopefully still be alive this Friday!

This semester has been a really bumpy ride. Overloaded by the amount of work is required to succeed. My greatest mistake is as always my over confidence in my abilities. As usual I study on last minute and get to sleep few hours before my final tests. I just don’t get how come I haven’t educated myself to prepare my stuff in advance… well I did work in advance, but somehow it wasn’t enough. I still got three final tests that bottleneck on Monday and Thursday. I’m stuck with transcripting my paper notes on the computer so I can study them. I kind of works both ways, be retyping them I recall most of what I typed. But I would of saved so many hours if I had a laptop. This way, most of my things would be typed up and I’d have more time on my hands to actually read all those books they have for us.
If I survive this semester I really have to get myself a laptop, even if it’s a cheap one. If it can boost my productivity I’m a go. Keep thinking positive for me, ’cause even if I can type 60 words a minute it still takes time to type 3 hours of a teacher saying every single details that crosses her mind.
Have a good summer everyone, if you find a job opening in the Montreal area I’d gladly apply.

Nope, I haven’t tripped and fell on my head. Starting Monday is my “Spring Break”! But somehow my teacher don’t seem to understand the focus of taking a week off because they all refer to it as a reading week. I good guess would be that in University you can never really have a break. Lots of work, all the time! I have papers to write videos to make, websites to design… never the less I intend to recharge my batteries and catch up with all the work I’m late in. Hope you like the new look of the blog as much as I do!

This has been my motto for some time. You could consider it as complaining but I’ve been wishing for someone to make a business of selling time. You could see it as myself not being organized enough and leaving my work to do at the last minute. I’ll agree I usually let the work add up, but I’ve decided to make a change. This year, I’ve finally started University like I’m in Quebec the system is a bit different but it’s like if it’s my third year if I was in the states, or other provinces. Point is when I was in college (after high-school, before university, lasts 2 years) I had high grades without doing much but now I feel I have to be a lot more competitive if I wish to make it to master degree.

To close my case, I have around 200+ pages to read each week and a lot of studying for my classes, I hope it will be enough and I’ll be glad if I’m doing too much, high scores can only help one to achieve success. So bottom line, you should wish me luck, pray for me and understand me if my studies take all my time. You’re all a great bunch, I’ll leave you to it, it’s around 3AM (sleep disorder?) I’m going to bed, an other class starts at 8:30 AM!

Special thanks to SpellCheck.net that I’ve been using regularly to correct misspelled words on my blog.

Forget about Celine Dion and her albums, please I’m trying to be serious here! A friend of mine introduced me to the wonderful World of Warcraft. I can say I’ve spent over ten hours in that MMORPG (~ Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). But the real important thing is that I’m starting University tomorrow morning, I don’t really know what to expect but I’ll be sure to keep you posted. I’m still on antibiotics from a bad cold I caught over the holidays.

My snowy day!
Let’s say I haven’t started my day on the right foot! We had our first snow storm, and it wasn’t pretty. Obviously I arrived 35 minutes late for my test even if I left home 20 minutes earlier. Trust me it was just sad to see that my first bus was stuck in snow and we had to take another one. Then, the second bus was stuck into traffic a few stops before school, nightmare… But good thing was that because of the snow they delay the test of 30 minutes so I ended up being 5 minutes late only. The reason that I’m angry is that they closed the school at noon, thus canceling my second test that was in the afternoon. I had to battle wind and snow to get to school while others can site home, warm and comfy. All of that because a few idiots started a rumor saying the school was closed, how can you believe that when it’s a final test! No they’ll be delayed up to the 23rd, which will make the Christmas vacations even smaller. But I guess that I’ll get over it real quick, even considering when 3 people called me during my test to tell me there’s no school today *how typical*, wasn’t ready for the second test anyway :irked:

Brokeback Mountain Movie Review
With the free afternoon I decided to go to the movies. Brokeback Mountain is a very special movie, it’s for mature audience; not because of some male and female body parts we see, but also because if you’re immature you’ll be shocked by it or you’ll snooze the hole 2 hours.
This story has love written all over it, but you also feel the pain and the sadness of being together and separated. You need to remain open-minded and be sure not to let yourself overwhelmed by the love affair of those two cowboys. So the story is really about an impossible love, and the regrets you can have afterwards. Some critics say it’s the film of the year, but as for many Oscar worthy movies the average person won’t be too impressed. But! The performance of Michelle Williams, the wife of one of the cowboys blew me out, after discovering her husbands secret she was in a trauma like state and was beautifully portrayed in that picture. I have to mention that all the actors made a stunning performance to bring their characters to life. Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger were perfect in every sense of the word, they are real cowboys, ruff rugged by the work and still managed to show their love towards each other (sometimes in a shocking way) in a very compassionate way that gave you shivers of realism. Bottom line, you might be sad at the end but will be content of the message that went through and how beautifully Ang Lee brought this picture to life.
I’ll give it 8/10, it was a great movie, and you shouldn’t miss it!

Just a few days before school, still can’t change my school schedule, no spots available for that Biology class. Oh well “Just Too Bad”! On a nice tone, after 7 years living at the stone age of PC gaming I finally got myself a decent video/graphic card. To test my new found powers I bought Half-Life 2 and Unreal Tournament 2004, just enought to survive the school year